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Prescription Drug News: NHS told to end culture of overprescribing. NHS patients
are being prescribed too many drugs with detrimental effects on their health and
the loss of millions of pounds from the health budget, the head of Britain's drug
safety regulator has said.The average 80-year-old patient is taking seven or eight
drugs but many were not needed, Professor Sir Alasdair Breckenridge, chairman
of the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) which licenses
drugs for use in the UK, said.Wastage caused by excessive prescribing was compounded
by patients who took too few of the drugs they were given, with further losses
to the NHS and additional risks to their health. Huge savings for the NHS and
big gains for public health could be made by tightening controls on the £10bn
NHS medicines bill, he added.Speaking to The Independent, Professor Breckenridge,
who has led the MHRA since it was formed in 2003, said an investigation had been
launched into concerns about the lack of training of doctors in pharmacology.
He called on the pharmaceutical industry, the medical profession and NHS regulators
to reduce multiple prescribing and improve patient compliance, responsibility
for which was "falling through the slots" between them.
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